Think I’m addicted to drinking milk - anyone else?

[peachyandkeen]

Just that. But somehow feels embarrassing to admit how much I CRAVE the stuff.

Someone tell me I’m not alone??

I buy a bottle of Jersey milk gold top, with the cream on top. I leave it overnight so the cream part goes really thick. Then I pour it over cereal, scraping the cream lumps out. (Sounds disgusting, right?) When I've eaten the cereal and drank the milk there's usually a solid lump of cream left...... and I eat it! Bloody lovely. I can make a bottle last 3 days but the first day with the solid cream is the best.

Wow @Curlygirl06 - this is a higher level of milk-worshipping!

If you do want to take the welfare of the cows and their babies into consideration, please read this and your milk might just start to taste a little less good: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/30/dairy-scary-public-farming-calves-pens-alternatives

You know when you're feeling really ill and you know you need to throw up but it won't happen? I drink a small glass of milk and job done!

If you do want to take the welfare of the cows and their babies into consideration

We first need to take into consideration our own bone health and absorbable calcium needs

[quote Snoken]If you do want to take the welfare of the cows and their babies into consideration, please read this and your milk might just start to taste a little less good: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/30/dairy-scary-public-farming-calves-pens-alternatives[/quote]
.... or you could go visit some of your local dairy farms and see for yourself.

I adore milk, ice cold. Good for your bones and contains vitamin D which can reduce PMS symptoms.

Not so keen on milky coffees etc, just plain milk hits the spot for me!

@Kiki275 True, there are some lovely dairy farms out there too, I'm sure. However, one thing they all do is remove the baby from its mother far too soon. Otherwise we couldn't get the amount of milk needed to meet the demands of the consumers. I'm not vegan, or against people drinking milk at all, but maybe instead of drinking litres a day, it could be good to find an alternative as we don't know where our supermarket milk comes from.

Be careful, you can drink too much. My dad has always loved milk, but when he was younger, working on building sites, he drank about 11 pints a day. He ended up very sick, and was told to reduce the amount immediately as it was causing problems.

Not usually, but this pregnancy I am drinking so much of it! Like 2 or 3 pints a day maybe? Just can't get enough of it's creamy goodness :P Obviously the baby will be a milk fiend!

I can drink pints of it too. But remember lactose is a sugar!

I wouldn't touch baby cow growth fluid with a barge pole tbh.

Animal welfare issues aside, it's such a strange concept to gulp down a bodily fluid that's specifically designed to help grow a calf into a cow.

I mean it's not like humans don't produce our own milk designed specifically for us, we should really just milk ourselves.

I can’t believe there are still people out there who think you need to drink the milk of another species to get your nutrients. It’s like thinking you need to feed human breast milk to your dog.

Western Europeans literally evolved to drink milk from cows. It's why most people in this country can continue drinking milk into adulthood. If it wasn't beneficial we would have lost our lactose tolerance in childhood as many populations still do.

Sometimes when putting the toddler to bed I think I will go downstairs and have a glass of wine. When I get there, I usually end up having a glass of milk and some chocolate 😂 I know it's weird but I like it.

If it wasn't beneficial we would have lost our lactose tolerance in childhood as many populations still do.

That’s a non sequitur if you are saying what I think - we are lactose tolerant because we drink it, not because it is beneficial to drink it. The fact that countries where people don’t drink it aren’t riddled with osteoporosis is evidence that you can get all the calcium you need without it.

No, western Europeans are lactose tolerant because selective pressure meant that the gene that affects lactase persistence was selected for because it was beneficial to those populations to consume milk and milk products into adulthood. No other animals retain lactase persistence into adulthood, populations have evolved that do because it was beneficial. That's how evolution works.

I absolutely hate milk, yogurt and ice cream. But cheese is my all time favourite food and I could live on the stuff!

When people start waffling on about how humans are the only animals that drink the milk of another species I do wonder if they have ever spent any actual time near farm or wild animals.

Most mammals and many birds given half a chance will happily drink the milk from other mammals.

Adult cows also frequently try and drink milk from each other so clearly they also didn't get the message about it only being for 'baby cows'

Rather than just spouting absolute rubbish you read on the internet (and don't get me started on the pile of tosh that is the guardian 'dairy is scary' linked above (I actually thought they have had to apologise and change some of it because it was so blindingly misleading)

I beg people to go to some actual farms. See a real dairy cow up close, go and see the calves in their pens. Go and see the milking parlours and how they work.

People will have read my precious posts on this subject will know that I am at times critical of some aspects of the dairy industry but I don't believe that humans milking cows and drinking their milk is inherently a cruel/bad thing.

@peachyandkeen

Wow *@Curlygirl06* - this is a higher level of milk-worshipping!

I know. I only discovered proper cream top milk recently, available in Waitrose and Co- op round here. Is it bad that I have it poured over cinnamon crunch cereal? Lol. To be fair my diet is pretty good, I'm at the bottom end of the bmi chart for "normal" weight, walk everywhere etc. But this is my secret vice (not so secret now I've told you lot!)

Spot on Scrowy

@Curlygirl06 what brand is this cereal please? Need to try!!

[quote peachyandkeen]@Curlygirl06 what brand is this cereal please? Need to try!![/quote]
You can get mainstream named cinnamon cereal, think it's called Cinnamon Grahams? However, after a great deal of research in this important matter, the best tasting ones are Aldi Harvest Morn cinnamon chips. The Lidl ones aren't as nice either. Hth x

We buy Duchy Organic milk and as it isn't overly processed, you get the lumps of cream in it especially the full fat that the grandkids love.

DH drinks at least 2 pints of milk a day, he loves it.

I can't tolerate dairy but love Oatly Barista!

@randomkey123

We buy Duchy Organic milk and as it isn't overly processed, you get the lumps of cream in it especially the full fat that the grandkids love.

DH drinks at least 2 pints of milk a day, he loves it.

I can't tolerate dairy but love Oatly Barista!

Might have to give that a try!